Re: novabbs usenet interface?

*Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> writes:

Lawyer Daggett had posted with this novabbs interface and Burkhard has
resurfaced using it too. I knew they would return. Has anyone seen Bill
Rogers?
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Anyway this:
https://www.novabbs.com/interests/thread.php?group=talk.origins
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I’ve put it through some basic tests:
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https://whois.domaintools.com/167.172.133.81
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https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/00f9592f2e0cd11a1bba924d0de5b35bf0242857ba97ea58b7abf9c3e667629a/detection
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Seems kosher.
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What’s it like? I see something about registering. Is that it? Is it
completely web-based?
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From Burkhard’s headers:
Organization: novaBBS
Return-Path: <news@i2pn2.org>
User-Agent: Rocksolid Light
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What’s “Rocksolid Light”? Is that just part of a web interface or is there
an actual client-server setup involved?
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I see this also which brings https://www.i2pn2.org/ into the picture:
https://www.novabbs.com/common/connect.php
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Is that a way to gain access with a traditional newsreader?
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https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/https/www.i2pn2.org  [clean]
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https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/c2305148c7747d48a6c3a813ec245a5763029da65f2b12f0a9a91491934e52e3?nocache=1[clean]
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So anyway this usenet access venue seems interesting. Feedback?

"Rocksolid Light is a web based forum using nntp as a backend. It may be
run as a standalone server, or may synchronize with other nntp servers
and other instances of Rocksolid Light."

https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light

https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light/-/blob/master/README.md?ref_type=heads

It looks like there is a news server called:

news.novabbs.org

Which I was able to connect to and view the active file of some 40,000
groups. I didn't test posting to it.